Famly Income,
School Ranking,
and Acceptance Rate
AP Statistics, Period 1, PRISMS
How does family income affect university acceptance rate in the United States?
ref: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TyPIamNSgPM8LeMRSupOXfkjfz9OyePl
I should make the schools into different groups based on their rankings, otherwise the sample size of each school will be too small to draw any conclusions, and will result in a lot of noise.
Seems like both high-ranking schools and low-rankings schools consider family income the most, while mid-ranking schools consider family income less.
But chi-square dosn’t tell us the direction of the relationship.
Top universities often practice wholistic review, which means they consider more than just test scores and GPA. They considers the difficulties that financially challenged students face, and how they overcome those difficulties.
For example, both Princeton and MIT marked first generation and work experience as “considered” in their common data set (CDS).
According to this New York Times article based on this research, students with top 0.1% parent income are 2.2x more likely to be admitted to top schools than average.